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Sexuality and the internet
What is the linkage between sexuality and the internet? Why is the protection of users from the 'harm' of pornographic content often the principal reason given to regulate the flow of information and exchange over the internet? How does it work in reality, and how does it impact on our ability to access information, form relationships, build communities, create knowledge and exercise self-determination in terms of our sexuality and sexual rights?
The "EroTICs: Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet" project is a two-and-a-half year research project that aims to answer some of these questions. This edition of GenderIT.org presents some of the initial findings of the project, and highlights from each of the five county research partners in Brazil, Lebanon, South Africa, India and the United States.
NEW ARTICLES
‘Does your mother know?’ Agency, risk and morality in the online lives of young women in Mumbai
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Internet?(Lebanon)
Negotiating transgender identities on a South African web site
What is 'Harmful to Minors'? US EroTICs partner investigates library search filters
Internet regulation and the Brazilian EroTICs context
FEATURED RESOURCES
EroTICs - Literature Review
EroTICs - Policy Review
Sex, Social Mores, and Keyword Filtering: Microsoft Bing in the "Arabian Countries
Image 'I do not expect your message' by "Feminist Tech Exchange Buenos Aires"
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SMALL THOUGHTS AROUND… From the “J” spot to the cru“X” of the matter
by Magaly Pazello, an associated researcher at EMERGE - Communication and Emergence Research Center, Fluminense Federal University, Brasil
Where
is women's "J" spot? asks Jan Moolman, making a play on
the word "G-spot", in reference to Maria Suárez's (Radio
FIRE) analysis of why Section
J was not a priority issue at the 10-year review of the Platform
for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing + 10).
Moolman, in agreement with Suárez, used the word "ghetto"
to emphasise
that media issues and ICTs (information and communication
technologies) should not be viewed in isolation, nor subjected to the
logic of static hierarchies.
On the contrary, the issue of ICTs plays a crucial role in all the critical areas identified by the Beijing Platform for Action. Bridge-building is urgently needed between women's human rights movements and broader political processes related to the new information and communication technologies, given that these processes pose challenges to myriad facets of women's equality from economic independence through to sexual and reproductive self-determination.
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